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Thunderbird Club

#149,121
Yeah, Thursday. An especially good day to get your freak on.

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Miles_ONeal said:
I meant to tell you I really liked this one, too! I started to creep you on Spotify, but that's the one gaping hole in Fedora right now. None of the apps that purport to handle Spotify seem to work. I need to remember to look on my phone.
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Ha! Send me your address and I can send you this on vinyl or CD when it comes back from the pressing plant. We did 7 songs. I would be happy to send you vinyl or a CD of the other band I am in with my wife.
 
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dagrev said:
Never had neck work done, but may be a buy for someone with experience in that area who really wants a 70s version. Then again, maybe not. Just depends. I'm not sure you can steam a neck-through. Never heard of someone doing that.
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There are methods which can work but wood has a memory, and if it's been bowed for 20 years - that's its memory and it may not be fixable.
 
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GBassNorth said:
I don't think it's you.
They were very popular in the 1990's when the body was bubinga and the slimmer neck was wenge. Around 1998 or '99 they dropped the bubinga body for ovankol and went to a wider wenge neck, which some didn't like. Also, IMHO, Warwick made a marketing blunder in the early 2000's by introducing a cheaper product line (like Epiphone or Squier) but not giving it a unique name, it watered down the brand equity and created confusion for the buyer.

Mine is a transition year with the ovankol body but narrow (for a five string) wenge neck. It's an absolute beast and just rips through a mix like a snarling chain saw. The pup configuration on the five string bolt on has a lot to do with it's sound. Two Jazz pups (which I normally wouldn't like) set on angle all the way down at the bridge. It's a configuration I haven't seen on any other brand of bass and it (maybe combined with the wood to a degree) creates a very unique tight grinding overdriven sound particularly well suited for heavy metal and hard rock.

If you're ever in a situation where a five string would be handy, a 1990's German made BO5 is the one to have. Prices on clean used ones from that era are down around or even less than used Gibson Thunderbirds.

My Warwick family...
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No Streamer? I see a corvette (?) to the left, what’s the center model? don’t think I’ve ever seen that..
 
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Thumper said:
Today's the day I get Embassy #3. I'm going to put the black pickguard on my black Embassy, and the drop tuner on my white, series/parallel wired Embassy. I'll have to hear it with chromes to see what, if anything to do with them.
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Series parallel is the best thing for these, the extra hotness sounds awesome. I have labella low tension flats on mine and it kills
 
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JIO said:
Congrats - I've also bought a Goth w/OHSC for a good price. Got a couple actually, and a couple necks also. They come up real cheap now and then. Don't know if I would compare them to the VP though. I think the VP's are a step above as a package. But I like the matte finish also and the necks.
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I didn't even consider the Goth when I was first looking. While I like my Goth Flying V[1], it's super light without a lot of sustain, and the pickups have a very aggressive sound. It definitely lends itself more to metal and certain forms of punk than other things. Not a one trick pony, but more limited than most Gib/Epi Vs.

[1] Not a bass
 
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Miles_ONeal said:
I didn't even consider the Goth when I was first looking. While I like my Goth Flying V[1], it's super light without a lot of sustain, and the pickups have a very aggressive sound. It definitely lends itself more to metal and certain forms of punk than other things. Not a one trick pony, but more limited than most Gib/Epi Vs.

[1] Not a bass
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I guess what I meant was, that with a nice set-up a Goth is as good as most bolt-on Epi T-birds with similar pu's/tuners/bridge etc. It was made for many years so there's a lot of them out there. But you will not find a used Epi VP selling for $200. It's a more refined instrument in most ways. The fact they are very affordable (seen used ones for under $600) makes them a great deal - but they won't sell for half that anytime soon. I personally like the Goth's because I can buy them for cheap and use them as a platform to manipulate into much better basses. My Deadlybird was a Goth body that I dramatically redefined. The body wood is solid mahogany - the raised sections (frt & back) are glued on because it's a bolt-on so it's only decorative. To buy a slab of kiln-dried wood could cost $200 depending on the wood. So it's a no brainer as platform material to buy a complete Goth for $200.
 
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JIO said:
There are methods which can work but wood has a memory, and if it's been bowed for 20 years - that's its memory and it may not be fixable.
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Clearly you haven't read enough Marvel comics or watched the movies enough. Every one of those peeps would have a solution. Granted we might want to ignore Hulk's; it would be a force multiplied El Kabong. Even my hard head doesn't want to get SMASHed with a THUNDERBIRD.
 
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